Kunitsu Gami Path Of Goddess Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · July 29, 2024

Kunitsu Gami Path Of Goddess Review is a unique Japanese-inspired, single-player Kagura Action Strategy game. The game takes place on a mountain covered by defilement. During the day, purify the villages and prepare yourself for sundown. During the night, protect the Maiden against the hordes of the Seethe. Repeat the day and night cycle until you cleanse the mountain of defilement and return peace to the land. The Seethe emerge from the Torii Gates to the other world when the sun sets. This enemy, which has a variety of different abilities, attacks at night under the cover of darkness, targeting the Maiden. The director’s ideas and attention to detail have been packed into the design that presents the setting of this game.

Kunitsu Gami Path Of Goddess Review Pros:

Beautiful graphics.
20.33GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Japanese and English voice choice.
Transfer PlayStation 4 game save option.
Action adventure gameplay.
Prioritise performance or quality options.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, can remap controls, vibration, and adaptive triggers.
Motion sensor support. (optional)
Accessibility options – speaker name display, closed caption, subtitles size, subtitles background, subtitles color, highlight color, mini-map radar color, and dance attack effects.
Unlock and equip soundtracks for battle music, boss stage music, bases, and Torii gate purification.
At the moment the game has an Okami collaboration.
Unlock and equip outfits and Weapon skin.
Excellent voice work.
In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
Opening tutorial pop-ups.
In a full 3D world with 360-degree camera control, you can zoom the camera distance in and out.
Purify Torii gates by clearing out bad guys to unlock a new path.
Deep hack-and-slash style combat.
The world map is plotted into stages within locations.
Uses the DualShock speaker.
Crystals are gathered from purifying the land.
Villagers will be imprisoned with the defilement and you free them with crystals.
Rescue villagers and assign them roles to have them fight alongside you, you can also heal them.
The command screen is where you can bring it up and give orders to your villagers.
The day and night cycle plays a huge part as you only get attacked at night.
Yoshiro is your spirit maiden partner and she only moves when you carve out a spirit path for her to follow.
Locations along the way will have a set amount of defiled elements, cleanse them all for a bonus reward. (you get a progress counter)
It’s surprisingly easy to move and place your villagers.
Yoshiro will move along the path on her own but you can give commands, she is the one who purifies the Torii gates.
Another mechanic is Yoshiro will turn blue to indicate she will purify the Torii gate before nightfall and when she’s white it means she either hasn’t reached the gate yet or won’t get it done by nightfall.
Breakable objects sprinkle the land.
During the day you prepare for the night.
You can fast forward to the daytime.
Oka dance is how you fight and it has many combos to learn and pull off.
Toxic Miasma can leak from gates to stop you from camping at the gate.
Beautiful art and images in the game.
The gameplay is a mix of a 3D action game but has the strategy of wave-based survival or tower defense-like affair.
When you die you become a spirit and can move around, after time (which is shown) you go back into your body.
Each stage has at least three bonus optional missions to do within that stage.
You can replay stages.
After purifying a Torii gate you turn the area into a temporary base with shops, upgrades, and interactions.
Resist gauges work like a stun bar, deplete the bar and you get to attack a stunned enemy.
Musibi is used to upgrade villagers and give them different roles and abilities, you can freely redo the allocation of Musibi at any time.
Mazo Talisman gives buffs to your character and you can equip up to two at a time.
Upgrading villagers also change their appearance.
Repair bases to unlock new options and opportunities, you assign villagers and this will take them out of the game for X amount of stages. (it varies on the job)
Seethe is what the enemy is called and they want to destroy the land and kill Yoshiro.
In huge boss encounter stages, you get given time to prepare your villagers and spend crystals.
Before selecting which base to enter on the map you see an overview.
You have bases for each stage with their own repairs and rewards.
Ema plaques are awarded to you with a picture of a defeated enemy, you have a rack in base where you can view these.
You can interact with the animals in your base.
Handy all defend and all attack commands.
Unlock and upgrade new villager types from healers to melee and ranged characters.
Defiled animals will roam the land, hit them for health and to clear the defiled away.
As you progress, stages get more elaborate and you can start to use the environment to help you, barriers can be found.
Full photo mode integration complete with options and filters, can easily be brought up in fights.
Torii gates that seperate areas have a mini-game where you have to keep Yoshiros soul in the center to heal her.
Obstacles in maps need villagers to clear them.
The game has action, strategy, and time management all mixed into a very cohesive and approachable experience.
You get the freedom to play how you want.
Awesome enemy character models and attacks. It’s combined the knowledge of Monster Hunter and Devil May Cry.
Crystals are also used for carving out a path for Yoshiro.
Plants that drip crystals do grow back over time.
Locations may have particulate elements you need to act upon like dark caves and caverns where you have to light lanterns so your villagers can see them.

Kunitsu Gami Path Of Goddess Review Cons:

A lot to take in.
The combat is fast and fluid but it does take some getting used to it for it to be good.
You can only save in between stages, you have autosave but you are never sure when or what it has saved.
The camera is not always ideal in tight spaces or boss fights as it’s harder to see what’s going on.
Can be a nightmare to remember all the buttons and menu shortcuts.
The music can be too chilled and repetitive.
They didn’t make it clear that each camp has its own group of helpers and you can then have multiple builds going on at one time.
You cannot skip some of the dancing and cleansing cutscenes, they are always the same.
Torii gate encounters take a while to get going, late game it gets better but the first few hours it’s a case of waiting for them to spawn.
Chasing down animals is a pain especially when they can just disappear.
It’s hard to always find the defiled points on the map.
No camera reset button.
When in combat there is no way to save a placement template so after an all-out attack or defend command you have to do it all again.